Motor freight carrier, general, local · North Carolina

Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh

Raleigh, NC · ~36 workers · 4 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

D
Poor Safety Record
8.5
Avg TCR
4.5
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh runs at 188% of its industry's injury rate - more dangerous than the typical Motor freight carrier, general, local workplace, earning a grade D.

Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh: 8.5 TCR = 188% of Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS 4.5 · 4y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh safety composite

Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh scores strongest on dart rate (safer than 86% of same-industry peers) and weakest on total case rate (tcr) (safer than 18%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

50/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
F 8.48 per 100 workers

Safer than 18% of industry peers

DART rate
B 0 per 100 workers

Safer than 86% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 51% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh held a steady TCR band

Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh's TCR held near 0.3 from 9.6 in 2021 to 9.3 in 2024. Peak filing year was 2021 at 9.6 TCR. In 2024, DART was 0× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

2021=9.6 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=9.3

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 484110 · Raleigh, NC ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade D · TCR 8.5 · 188% of ind

  • DART 0.0 DART
  • RANK #79/89
  • PHOTO CAE Columbia Lot
  • BOOK 4y book
  • INJ 11 inj
  • SIZE ~36 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: CAE Columbia Lot (0.0 TCR gap)

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Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh averages 8.5 TCR (188% of the Motor freight carrier, general, local BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh TCR series: 2021=9.6 · 2022=9.2 · 2023=5.8 · 2024=9.3 · BLS 4.5

Where Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh falls in its industry

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general establishments

Safer than 18% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 4.7.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to North Carolina alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #79 safest of 89 Motor freight carrier, general employers in North Carolina.

Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh (36 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 0200400600800 051015 Average employees Total Case Rate Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh
Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh (36 employees, TCR 8.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 47 employees and a TCR of 4.7

Ward Trucking LLC-Raleigh has fewer employees than the Motor freight carrier, general, local median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 4.7. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 9.3 0.0 3 0 0
2023 5.8 5.8 2 0 0
2022 9.2 9.2 3 0 0
2021 9.6 9.6 3 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

484110 · NC · Raleigh

2,784 Motor freight carrier, general, local employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 16,981 rated employers in North Carolina with headcount on file · 973 employers in Raleigh, NC · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR CAE Columbia Lot 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NJ_Burlington_15 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR LITTLE ROCK (ARLRC) 8.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR NFI Interactive Logistics, LLC-1371 Center Mills Rd 8.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Butterball Hatchery # 1 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE North Carolina Farms (CV) 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Yadkin 36 FTE
STATE-SIZE Edgecombe Genco, LLC. 36 FTE
CITY-NEAR Headway Workforce Solutions 13,936 FTE
CITY-NEAR NC State University 11,491 FTE
CITY-NEAR UNC Rex Healthcare 7,282 FTE
CITY-NEAR SECU 6,283 FTE
NAT-TCR Sanderson Pipe Corporation 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Mars Mo 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Penney Retirement Community, Inc. 8.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Greenwich Hospital 8.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Skittone Almond Sheller 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Corn Lp 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Jennmar Corporation of Virginia inc. Specialty Products 36 FTE
NAT-SIZE Water Quality Science Building 36 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.